The need for entrepreneurship education (EE) to nurture and groom the youth to take up enterprise ventures, business solutions and solving societal problems drinks from the fountain of embedding EE in higher educational institutions across Africa. Coupled with the rising problem of graduate unemployment and low levels of public-sector employment, universities can foster entrepreneurial skills to promote socio-economic development. This paper sheds light on the implementation and introduction of EE in the curricula of Ashesi university, one of Ghana's foremost private universities. The research focuses on the university’s year-long foundation course known as Foundation for Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship (FDE) which offers freshmen the opportunity to take courses on entrepreneurship while identifying societal problems and designing creative solutions to tackle the problems. This lasts for a 6-month period followed by a second part that has a social or profit enterprise dimension where innovative ideas are transferred into sustainable business solutions or start-ups for the same period. At this point, the Ashesi model selects the very best social/profit enterprises based on impact, creativity, viability and sustainability through the Ashesi Venture Accelerator (AVA) that supports student entrepreneurship capabilities. As part of the AVA, students in the second part of the project and final years are educated on university-industry linkages such as how to open a company, register a business and accessing start-up capital in Ghana. Drawing on interviews, focused-group discussions and documentary sources the study finds that the Ashesi model has enhanced entrepreneurial capabilities of students as students have established various social enterprises, businesses, campus projects and solving social problems such as the June 3rd flooding disaster in 2015 using plastic waste materials to save lives.